'I’m so happy to have him back': Doctor back home after being stranded in Gaza

Dr. Ammar Ghanem went to Gaza on May 1 ^st and expected to return a week later, but that did not happen.

He ended be stuck there for an extra week, now he is grateful to be back home.

“Ultimately, we were evacuated safely and I would thank everybody who worked on this, you know the community here,” Ghanem said.

Dr. Ghanem went over to Gaza for a medical mission.

He volunteered in the ICU at a hospital there.

“I was telling my family, it’s really worth all the sacrifice, all the risk we took cause they know you save one life in Gaza it’s as if you saved the whole humanity,” Ghanem said.

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Ghanem says before he decided to go on the mission trip, he asked his wife and three kids first.

“I will not take the risk unless I have my family on my side supporting me and I know my specialty is well needed,” Ghanem said.

Ghanem’s wife, Amnah, says she was living in a nightmare not knowing when her husband was going to come back home.

“I’m so happy to have him back home,” said Amnah Allboani, Ghanem’s wife.

As Ghanem celebrate his safe return home with his family, he says he can’t stop thinking about the people who are still in Gaza continuing their missions.

“They decide to stay because they want to continue to help and continue to advocate for the people of Gaza from inside. You are leaving, you advocate from the outside,” said Ghanem.

When Ghanem was asked if he would do another medical mission like this one again… his wife answered for him.

“He’s not stoppable. He will do it and convince me to agree and then say I did not go by myself, I took your permission,” said Allboani.